Improvement in button-hole cutters



C. VAN HUOSEN.

Button-Hole Cutters.

N0 139,983. Patentedlun e17fl87 3.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GFFIGE.

CASPER VAN HOOSEN, NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTON-HOLE CUTTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 39,983, dated J uno17, 1873; application filed March 29, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CASPER VAN HoosEN, of the city, county and State ofNew York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in CombinationScissors, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1, Sheet 1, represents m y improved combination scissors. Fig. 2,Sheet 1, is a detail view of the stilleto-blade of the scissors. Fig. 3,Sheet 1, is a detail cross-section of the same, taken through the lineor m, Fig. 2.

The invention consists in arranging a cloth gage within a circular slotof one scissor blade, which is shouldered, and a stop-screw on the otherslotted blade, which acts against the shoulder, as hereinafter morefully described.

A and B are the two blades, and O and D are the two handles of thescissors. Upon the inclined side of the wider blade A, is formed a scaleof division-marks of inches and fractions of an inch. Upon the ends ofthe handles 0 D are formed two jaws E in such positions that when thehandles are brought together they will close like the jaws of a pair ofpliers or tweezers, and may be used in the same way. At the inner endsof the cutting-edges of the blades A B are formed slots or recesseswhich cause the said edges to terminate .in sharp corners or points, andwhich may be provided with an adjustable stop, F, which, when adjusted,will prevent the blades from closing beyond the required point, so thatall the button-holes will be of exactly the same length. The stop F maybe a setscre'w, passing through a nut attached to the one part of thescissors in such a position that its forward end may strike against ashoulder upon the other part, as shown in Fig. 1, so that a longer'orshorter cut may be made by turning the said screw out or in. G is a stopplaced in the longer slot, and sliding upon the part in which said slotis formed, so that the edge of the cloth may strike against it and thuscause all the button-holes to begin at exactly the same distance fromthe edge of the cloth.

The stop G may be held in place by friction, or by any convenientdevice. The part of the scissors upon which the stop G slides may beprovided with a scale of division-marks for con venience in adjustingsaid stop.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The notated scissorblade A 13, having each acorresponding curved slot at the inner ends of its cutting edge, ashoulder, a stop, F, and an adjustable cloth-gage, G, as and for thepurpose described.

CASPER VAN HOOSEN. Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM,

T. B. MOSHER.

